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rightmove.co.uk says over one in five of its property searches were performed on mobile devices on Sunday as home-hunters took their property search outdoors to enjoy the hot weather. In total, 20.86 percent of rightmove.co.uk's searches were performed on its suite of mobile devices, which include an iPhone app, iPad app and mobile website. This figure was the highest the market-leading portal has ever recorded and only the second time the 20 percent mark has been broken - the previous occasion being on Easter Sunday this year, which was another scorching day across the UK. “The weather and property are

booli.se has just launched its free app for iPhone, allowing its audience to search a database of over 310,000 homes. The Swedish property portal, which is run by a team of six people in a market dominated by hemnet.se, says the app also covers price reductions, the length of time a property has been listed for, and estimates of mortgage and insurance costs. booli.se adds that an Android app is already in the works. booli.se added estimated values to its listings in late March, and the portal also provides users with a broker guide that displays brokers’ market share, the number of

Last week, leading French property portal seloger.com made an AUD$8.9 million investment in IPGA Ltd, parent company of the iProperty network of property portals. In this podcast, IPGA chairman and Property Portal Watch publisher Simon Baker tells us how the deal came about, and what it means for IPGA. Disclosure: CAV Investment Holdings, a related party of Classified Ad Ventures – the owner of propertyportalwatch.com – owns shares in iProperty Group parent company IPGA.

Rightmove Overseas is reporting a 15 percent increase in searches in May, with a new partnership boosting interest in Poland. The website says 56.2 percent of indexed locations saw increases in searches in May, while 43.7 percent saw decreases. Poland made it into the top 20 countries for the first time, with searches increasing by 248 percent after Rightmove Overseas began listing properties from Polish real estate website morizon.pl. Bavaria in Germany was the top climber for the month, with 82 percent more searches than in April: "After the bank holidays in April, searches for overseas property increased by 15

iproperty.com.sg is claiming first place in the Singapore market based on figures from Google Analytics and comScore. But competitor propertyguru.com.sg is also claiming top spot. iproperty.com.sg says Google Analytics has its May unique visitor total at 744,000, which is 144,000 ahead of the estimated total for its nearest competitor: iproperty.com.sg adds that comScore also has it in front of the nearest competing portal: "According to comScore’s findings, iProperty.com Singapore is not only the preferred source for those looking for properties online, the portal also has a larger reach – 4.3 percent of all Internet users rely on iProperty.com for real-estate information

Latin American portal network VivaReal recently unveiled new social features, including the option for users to add Facebook comments to listings. The VivaReal network sees over 1 million people visiting each month, with over half of its traffic coming from Brazil - the ninth largest country in terms of Facebook users. In this interview, we ask VivaReal CEO and co-founder Brian Requarth whether he anticipates any problems with opening VivaReal up to the social web. Disclosure: CAV Investment Holdings, a related party of Classified Ad Ventures – the owner of Property Portal Watch – owns shares in VivaReal.

Over the next three weeks, we're re-publishing this series on property portal marketing strategies by John Hart, a consultant at Property Portal Watch publisher Classified Ad Ventures. Prior to joining us, John spent over six years with the REA Group, most recently as their group sales and marketing manager working across 10 countries. Before REA, John was with one of Australia’s largest real estate networks - First National - for 12 years with more than seven as their national marketing manager. Read part one here. In my last post I talked about the importance of property portals getting the marketing message right,

in.iproperty.com has just unveiled its new look and feel, along with a property valuation tool aimed at property buyers and investors. The new "Value Me" tool shows users an estimated market value of properties based on factors such as location, size, building age and nearby transportation. “There is an implicit need in the buyers today to know the value of their own property and the property which they intend to buy," says Sharman Raishinghani, the portal's head of national sales and strategy. Along with the valuation tool, in.iproperty.com has also added a jobs section for developers, and a section dedicated

mondinion.com, a global real estate portal that offers free listings, has now expanded its offering for agents to include three new paid packages. These new premium packages will be sold at US$200, $300 and $500 per year. Agents who sign up will have access to features such as priority placement for their listings, banner advertising in monthly newsletters, country-specific statistics, and XML upload of listings. mondinion.com adds that it will offer premium members access to information on the people who view their listings, including date and time of access along with the city, state and country of the viewer based on

Following on from Digital Property Group's claim that findaproperty.com is second in the UK market based on comScore figures, zoopla.co.uk has released Nielsen statistics that place it in front of findaproperty.com. Both sets of figures show a surge in visits to property portals in May, after DPG, zoopla.co.uk and market leader rightmove.co.uk ran spring marketing campaigns. The Nielsen statistics have rightmove.co.uk up 7.6 percent year-on-year to a May total of 3.45 million unique visitors - a contrast to the 6.6 million recorded by comScore. Nielsen put zoopla.co.uk's May audience at 1.96 million unique visitors, up 45.97 percent year-on-year. This is in